EMISSARY
\ˈɛmɪsəɹi], \ˈɛmɪsəɹi], \ˈɛ_m_ɪ_s_ə_ɹ_i]\
Definitions of EMISSARY
- 2010 - New Age Dictionary Database
- 1913 - Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
- 1919 - The Winston Simplified Dictionary
- 1920 - A practical medical dictionary.
- 1898 - Warner's pocket medical dictionary of today.
- 1899 - The american dictionary of the english language.
- 1894 - The Clarendon dictionary
- 1919 - The Concise Standard Dictionary of the English Language
- 1914 - Nuttall's Standard dictionary of the English language
- 1874 - Etymological and pronouncing dictionary of the English language
- 1920 - A dictionary of scientific terms.
- 1871 - The Cabinet Dictionary of the English Language
- 1790 - A Complete Dictionary of the English Language
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An agent employed to advance, in a covert manner, the interests of his employers; one sent out by any power that is at war with another, to create dissatisfaction among the people of the latter.
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Applied to the veins which pass out of the cranium through apertures in its walls.
By Oddity Software
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An agent employed to advance, in a covert manner, the interests of his employers; one sent out by any power that is at war with another, to create dissatisfaction among the people of the latter.
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Applied to the veins which pass out of the cranium through apertures in its walls.
By Noah Webster.
By William Dodge Lewis, Edgar Arthur Singer
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One of the channels of communication between the venous sinuses of the dura mater and the veins of the diploe and the scalp.
By Stedman, Thomas Lathrop
By William R. Warner
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One sent out on a secret mission: a spy: an underground channel by which the water of a lake escapes.
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Same as EMISSORY.
By Daniel Lyons
By James Champlin Fernald
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A person sent on a secret mission to influence as well as watch the movements of some opposing party; an underground channel for the escape of water from a lake; an excretory vessel.
By Nuttall, P.Austin.
By Stormonth, James, Phelp, P. H.
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Coming out ; name veins passing through apertures in the cranial wall and establishing connection between the sinuses inside and the veins outside.
By Henderson, I. F.; Henderson, W. D.
